Is Sunny Hostin the most empty-headed person on the planet? That's a legitimate question given some of the things she's said on "The View" over the years. Recently, she claimed that January 6th was comparable to the Holocaust and chattel slavery, and that's just a taste of how ridiculous she can be. 

SEE: Sunny Hostin Makes Disgusting, Offensive Comparison to January 6th, and Then Gets Launched Into Orbit

In December, Hostin made a series of possibly defamatory remarks about Matt Gaetz, leading to her producers forcing her to read a correction on-air. If you haven't seen that clip yet, it's absolute gold. But while Hostin's remarks often offer significant unintentional comedic value, they also take a much darker turn at times. When UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered, she went so far as to offer a defense, claiming "this country was built on violence" while offering justification for those on the left celebrating the heinous act. 

So yeah, Hostin has a history of shooting off at the mouth and saying things she shouldn't. This time, though, the topic is hitting a lot closer to home. According to The Daily Mail, Hostin's husband, Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, has been named as a defendant in a massive RICO case involving insurance fraud. 

The long-time husband of The View co-host Sunny Hostin is starting the New Year under a cloud after being accused of federal insurance fraud.

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Hostin is among nearly 200 defendants named in one of the largest RICO cases ever filed in New York.

He and many of the others are accused or getting kickbacks by performing surgery and fraudulently billing a company that insures taxi companies and Uber and Lyft drivers.

‘Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries,’ the lawsuit, filed on December 17, claims.

The insurance firm American Transit was then billed ‘in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.’

What's so eyebrow-raising about this is that Sunny Hostin appeared to reveal part of her husband's alleged scam live on-air recently while trying to obfuscate from the aforementioned murder of Thompson. 

Sunny Hostin's husband has been named in a massive insurance fraud RICO case. WACTH: Hostin implicates her husband in such a scheme: "[He] operates on someone even though they don't have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work..." pic.twitter.com/P2ZvLdmhzt

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 7, 2025

SUNNY HOSTIN: I mean, I agree with mostly everything that’s been said. I mean, we know that, you know, only about 31 percent of Americans trust our healthcare system. We have a terrible healthcare system. And, you know, doctors suffer because of big corporations, as well. Doctors that want to do good like my husband, you know, operates on someone even though they don't have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work that he's been trained his whole life to do.

At the time, Nicholas Fondacaro of Newsbuster pointed out the oddly worded statement, wondering exactly what she meant. How could a doctor sue (or bill) a health insurance company after performing surgery on someone without insurance?

Hostin also made curious comments about her husband’s interactions with insurance companies. She said her husband, who’s a surgeon, “operates on someone even though they don't have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work that he's been trained his whole life to do.”

While I don't doubt that there's more evidence of her husband's alleged misconduct than what Hostin said on 'The View,' no one can deny the rich irony here. She goes on television and literally describes him committing insurance fraud and then he gets rolled up in a massive insurance fraud lawsuit. You can't make this stuff up.

We'll see where this goes, and obviously, he has not been found liable for anything yet. Big picture, though, it certainly puts a damper on Hostin's constant claiming of the moral high ground in any discussion. It also leaves nothing to chance in pondering just how incredibly dull-witted she is. I shouldn't have to say this, but it's probably not a good idea to go on live television and expose your husband's alleged fraud in a vain attempt to virtue-signal. Perhaps Hostin will be reading another "legal note" on "The View" very soon.